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THE EYEJN D1SPATHI I
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Noil5VoI 3 PROVO CITY UTAH FRIDA1 MARCH 30 1894 PRICE FIVE CENTS A COPY
WAS HE POISONED
The Testimony Given By
Mrs Tail Patton
I
WAITING FOR A VERDICT
The Attorneys are Occupying the Time
TodayThe Defense Annie That The
Doubt of Nielsens Being Poisoned r
Without Other Evidence Should Acqit I
In the Van Patton murder case yes
terday Niels Thompson testified to
having tried to borrow 2000 from Niel
sen laet fall He got only 1250
Sexton Johnson was paid 800 by
Mrs Nielsen out of a big roll of bills
Shoemaker Johnson heard the old
lady say to Emma there was 110 use I
bellowing Better men than Nielsen
dad died
Deputy Marshal Clawson had been
offered by her 1000 to kill the old
man who upon hearing her make the
offer said he would give 2000
Further testimony concerning the
hatchet escapade was offered and the
hack driyer went upon the stand He
called for Emma on Monday evening
Soren said she would stay a month
MRS VAN PATTON
testified Am thirtyBye years old
have three children went to Ephraim
to borrow 5UO from my uncle received l
me pleasantly kissed me on Monday
explained object of my visit uncle was I
sorry he could not accommodate me
he was going to Norway and couldnt
spare the cash Mrs Nielsen spoke of
I the mice and the rough on rats I said
I had heard the mice m my room uncle
went in town Tuesday morning asked
me to go aunt asked him to bring
certain groceries and some rough on
rats we met Mads on the way to the
store after puicbasinguncleandl took
a walk about town on getting home
aunt took the articles into the kitchen
my aunt and uncle quarreled about
a letter uncle had just received from
his daughter asking for money aunt
called uncle a horeuiaster he twit
ted her about going to Nevada with
Johnson after dinner uncle went up
town at 6 oclock I went in town for
some whisky for my aunt she requested
me to go Nielsen ate mush milk
some salmon and bread he also drank
some beer know nothing about the
beer standing while the old gentleman
was down town aunt prepared the
rough on rats and put it under a bed
I then wentdown town for the whisky
aunt sayIng for me not disclose who it
w s > for a man directed me to the drug I
salsre and afterwards I went to the
saloon with him he got the liquor for
me the flask was about onethird full
arrived at the house about 630 uncle
was on the lounge aunt eaid he was
sick and had been vomiting he said
he had a bad stomach I said no
wonder after drinking that beer and
eating that salmon he went out and
game in and laid down on the floor
we put him on the bed and undressed
bim I put bricks at his feet he said
they were cold 1 suggested that a doc
tor be sent for and aunt said there
was no need of that
Did you pour out a glass of liquor
and stir it with a spoon
No sir
waited on uncle all night until 4
oclock arose again at 6 j during those
two hours I got up frequently and at
tended to him I threw the vomit out
back of the house Mrs Nielsen asked
sne to find out if uncle wanted some
> whisky and he said he would like some
brandy Mrs Nielsen then said for me
± o get a bottle of whisky one of
brandy and a bottle of laudanum 1
asked her what she wanted with laud
anum she said she had a pain in
her stomach that morning Soren said I
that his wife was trying to get
his keys to steal his money I felt in
bis pocket got the keys and gave them
to afterwards I met Mads and told
him my head ached told him uncle
had been sick all night j asked Mads
to go and get the laudanum which he
did then 1 went to the saloon for the
liquor arrived at the house about
10 30 I gave Mrs Nielsen the whisky
brandy and laudanum 1 gave him a
little brandy and he said HIt is good
Put it under my pillow where that
crazy thing wont get it the last time
I s iw the bottle of laudanum it was in
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BUFFALO NY
the hands of Mrs Nielsen
Did you give him any poison
I never did
On Thursday morning we arose I
early uncle seemed asleep and
breathed quite heavily at about 9
oclock the doctor came uncle vas
then breathing very heavily and the
doctor made an examination I told
him uncle had suffered greatly with
cholera morbus the doctor went away
and came back shortly before he died
I said 0 I wish I had the money and
I would send to Provo or Salt Lake for
a doctor I was vexed because Dr
Olsten did nothing forjny uncle on the
doctors return however he injected
some brandv into him
On Wednesday I had a talk with
uncle about some money he bad with I
Amon JDihle at Spanish Fork and he
told me to have Mads write to him and
ask him to let me have the money I
wanted I had Mads write the letter I
never had a talk with Mads behind the
house and never said anything about
saddling the crime on the old woman
r saw him th ere but had no nnnvoron
notion
tion with him
There was no cross examination
Mr Van Patton testified to property
being owned by his wife consisting of
mining shares
Mrs Van Patton was recalled and
asked Did you get any money from
Nielsens place
uNo only 85CO the old lady had
given me
Did you say no to a question of Dr
Olsten as to whether laudanum was in
the house
Yes but I corrected myself after
wards had forgotten at the time about
the laudanum I was very excited
Mr Thurman Did the doctor say
laudanum
uNo he said laudanum bottles
Are you sure he did not say laud
anum and not laudanum bottles
Yes sir
You knew the old lady would get
drunk and was quarrelsome and still
you cot her liquor
Yes sir
And vou told tHe shoemaker stories
to get it
Yes she told me to
She was drunk the night before
Yes sir
And you went out next morning
and got more liquor
Yes elr
Did you tell a falsehood when you
represented that you were from Mo
roni
1 said I was going to Moroni The
od lady told me to tell these things
Considerable expert testimony by
doctors was giyen and some rebuttal
and court adjourned
This morning arguments in the noted
case began and will undoubtedly oc
cupy the whole day The attorneys for
the defense argue slron ly that there is
great doubt that Neilsen died of poison
13 well as that if he took poison he did
not take it trom the hands of Mrs Van
Patton
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termediate points a 500 p m
D E BURLEY
Genaral Agent Passenger Dept Salt
Lake City
SPECIAL CONFERENCE TRAINS
Over the Rio Grande Western Railway
Beg nning April 6th and until April
8th the Rio Grande Western will run a
conferencE special each morning for the
accommodation of the Utah county
people alone This train will leave
Provo at 8 a m and arrive in Salt
Lake at 930 a m returning leave
Salt Lake at 6 p m arrive in Provo at
730 p m Reduced rates begin April
4th Tickets are good for returning
until April 12th It is a pleasure to
travel over the Rio Grande Western
heir caches are of latest design em
ployes courteous ard without pir
illel in U e west Str et car run direct
rect from Sal Lace d PD t > Temple
quare w thout charge
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NEWS OF A DAY
A Bill Following Up The
Sei nioraae Bill
CHAS F CRISP APPOINTED
Ssnator 3rom Georgia to Succeed Alfred
H ColquittSilver Dick Bland Ex
presses His Views Vigorously on Oleyg
lands Veto of the Seignloracre Bill
WASHINGTON March 29 Represen
tative Henderson democrat of North
Carolina followed the presentation of
the presidents yeto message by sub
mitting a bill for the coinage of the
silver seigniorage The text is the
same as the Bland bill omitting the
second section and some ot the ex
planatory language of the first section
It directs the secretary of the treasury
to coin as fast as psssible the silver
I seigniorage into legal tender standard
dollars The bill was referred to the
coinage committee
CRISP SUCCEEDS COLQUITT
ATLANTA Ga March 29Governor
Northern has appointed Speaker
Charles F Crisp to succeed the late Al
rT T
fred H Colquitt Not a word has
passed between the governor and the
speaker and his name had not even
been presented formally to the gov
ernor
It was after midnight when Speaker
Crisp received notice of his appoint
ment as senator from Georgia He was
much surprised as the offer was un
expected His first inclination was to
decline but at 1 oclock he wired the
governor that he would hold his an
swer until he could consider the mat
ter
ELANDS VIEWS
WASHINGTON March 29Bland says
of the veto that the president does wish
to induce into the currency any more
silver until he has more bonds and a
greater gold reserve He says
A president in sympathy with the
purposes of the bill would have signed
it College professors may criticise its
language but a man who sprung from
the people like Abraham Lincoln and
representing nut the money power but
the interests of the masses would have
signed the bill although college pro
fessors might have sti1rmatized him as a
rail splitter f
Concerning the future of tho silver
m kvnmfint Mr Bland said
It is evident that under the single
gold standard nothing can be done on
the currency question without consult
ing the few people who own the gold
of the world These people have dic
tated the veto of this bill The fight
from now on will be whether the peo
pie of this country shall control the
currency by permitting gold and silver
to come to the mints free and thus
supply themselves with constitutional
money or whether we are to be mere
slaves of the owners of gold in Lom
bard street and Wall street The day
is fast approaching when the peoples
president will sign a coinage bill I
intend to do everything in my power
to present to the president a free coin
age bill and let him exercise his rules
of Lindley Murray on that
IB the Oleander Poisonous
Whether locality has anything to do
with it or not has not yet been definite
ly settled but certain it is that in cer
tain portions of the country the olean
der BO much admired for its exquisite
blossoms has been the cause of serious
illness and in some cases death has
been attributed to a too intimate associ i
ation with it Several persons were at
tacked with exceedingly painful throat
disorders with headache giddiness and
violent heart agitation The dispensa
tories class it as a heart poison and one
of its victims died in the most distress
ing heart convulsions Animals are
affected by it as well as man A valua
ble horse died a few moments after
browsing on the stalks and leaves Sey
eral cows died from drinking water into
which some cuttings of the plant had
been thrown and other animals were
very sick from inhaling the smoke from I
burning twigs and leaves of this plant
They were shut in a small yard and a
breeze carried the smoke directly to
ward them In other localities there
seem to be no serious consequences at
tending the cultivation of this plant
Whether immediate surroundings or
climatic conditions have anything to do
with the effects of this popular house
plant would furnish an interesting sub
ject fordiscussion New York Ledger
Imperator was originally a title of
honor bestowed on a victorious general
After the downfall of the republic it
became the title of the supreme ruler
and had the sense of our word emperor
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MAN AGAINSnOA
A Remnrkallo Duel Fotht In Central
Amerlot to Settle Mnger
A Newark engineer TJO served on
the engineering corps e loyed in the
construction of the Nilratrna canal
told the story of a duel vth a boa con
strictor by a fellow engin + One of the
party stated one eveniugiat he could
kill a boa single handed the rest of
the crowd tried to convmqhim he was
wrong but he stuck to tS assertion
Finally a handsome bet w made that
he could not dispatch a bo lone if the
deadly reptile was in its mjjral con
dition The young englnitr promptly
accepted the terms of the ager
The next day a gang of natives were
sent into the forest to find a boa They
finally came upon just th article they
were looking for It wrs t well grown
specimen of the boa species S fully 15 feet I
long It had eaten heartily a few days
before > it was discovered and it was
therefore torpid It was captured with
out difficulty and taken baojl to camp
It was deposited in a ro ill where it
was securely bound and then left until
its sleep should be over The young en
gineer who was to meet the undulous
monster of the forest in a duel to the
death repented of his rash bargain many
times but he never let any one know
and was dead game as the saying
goes from first to last Boas often re
main in torpor for three weeks and it
was nearly a fortnight before the pin
ioned snake showed signs of returning
activity The engineers then appointed
n night for the combat and the young
man who was to face the Serpent went
into active training It had been stipu
lated that his only weapon was to be a
knife and the young man relied on his
clear brain iron nerve and supple wrist
to carry him through the encounter in
safety <
safeWhen
When work was over on the appoint
ed day those who were in the secret en
tered the room and proceeded to cut the
ropes with which the serpent was
bound It had been coiled up and sev
eral bands placed about t These were
all ovorea iiG a > 3Cakes op
ponent entered while life coiup JL
beat a hasty retreat to safe coigns of
vantage from which to watch the strange
battle and to give succor in a last ex
tremity The young engineer was light
ly clad and carried in his right hand a
long knife highly ground and sharp
ened The monster half famished as it
was was In a most angry humor and
its horrid head oscillating to and fro
with distended jaws and viciously shin
ing beady eyes must have made the
young mans flesh creep He strode
straight up to the boa and with a light
ning stroke of his knife cut the remain
ing band that bound it He jumped
back the instant the stroke had fallen I
with the celerity of a tiger cat but his
swiftness was snaillike compared with
that of the serpent Quicker than
thought the boa descended upon his en
emy Before the man could move the
snake bad fallen upon his arm had
wound its way pp its entire length and
was biting at his shoulder
The arm around which the snake had
wound Itself was the young fellows
knife arm Luckily the hand and wrist
were free He did not wait to transfer
the knife to his other band but sum
moned all his power and cut at the coil
of the serpent nearest his pinioned hand
It was a splendid stroke a backward
cut and it was clean through the body
The upper portion of the slimy coil
dropped to the floor and the intrepid
engineer had won his bet The entire
contest lasted but few seconds and so
quickly did it pass that the breathless
onlookers scarcely realized what had
happened The young man was pretty
thoroughly exhausted His shoulder
was quite badly lacerated by the teeth
I of the snake The strangest part of the
episode was that the young mans arm
was lame for weeks and all its length
was a spiral black and blue where the
snake had encircled itPittsburg Dis
patch
Cocoa and chocolate are prepared
from the nuts by freeing them from the
pulp and making them undergo a proc
ess similar to malting They are after
ward roasted in a perforated cylinder
and are then freed from their husks and
made into cocoa or chocolate
The BostonJournal thinks it is a sin
gular fact that in our time adventur
esses are generally reported as possess
ing a wealth of golden hair sparkling
eyes a vivacious disposition and a
strangely attractive and magnetic
voice II
THE SOLITARY FIFER
Ho Was the Only Remnant of a Gorgeous
Reception Committee
I guess exSenator Dick Oglesby of
Illinois never forgot a reception tender
ed him at Lincoln Ills said R L
Matheny of Springfield Lincoln was
comparatively a new town and growing
very rapidly the citizens believing that
it was destined at an early time to be
larger than Bloomington Peoria or
Springfield Therefore when Hon Rich
ard Oglesby candidate for governor
was billed speak there elaborate prep
arations were made for his reception in
order to surpass all other towns First
a baud wagon then the old soldiers on
foot with flags then carriages contain
ing the city officials and the distin
guished guest then citizens in carriages
and on foot were to march in proces
sion Every vehicle in the place had
been engaged except an express wagon
that operated as the town dray Even
tho hack that usually conveyed passen
gers from the depot to the hotels was
put into requisition and the express
wagon took its place as a bus The only
thing that was left undone was to ob
tain information of the fact that the
train changed time on that day and
came in two hours earlier than usual
It came in and two passengers
alighted Hon Richard Oglesby and a
Methodist preacher They were placed
in the express wagon and started for
the hotel The master of ceremonies
for the day heard of it in some way and
immediately notified the leader of the
band who was a performer on the fife
That worthy lost all judgment and not
seeing any of the other musicians ran
up the street until ho espied the express
wagon Then making a profound bow
to the governor and preacher he walked
in front of them and with a dignified
step guided them up the street to the
tune of Behold tho Conquering Hero
Comes The governor was too angry
to ever tell it and the citizens of Lin
coln kept it a profound secret but the
Methodist preacher enjoyed it and never
tire 1 of relating how he and the gov
I error of Illinois were escorted to the
uvErLtlryyn BoiitaXy lifer St Louis
GlcbeDemocratTv i ftv
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The application of India rubber to
buckets to render them noiseless has
been successfully tried in Great Brit
ain The bottom the ears and the
bail are all protested The bottom
of the pail has three round disks of rub
ber clamped on at the edges and they
can be readily removed and replaced
The ears are of india rubber while the
bail has a single disk encircling it
which answers the purpose Ex
change
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Brings comfort and improvement ana
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used The many who live be
ter than others and enjoy life more with
less expenditure by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy Syrup of Figs
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative j effectually cleansing the system
dispelling cold headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing constipation
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met vith the approval of the medical
profession because it acts on the Kid
neys Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and 1 bottles but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co only whose name is printed on every
package also the name Syrup of Fig
and being well informed you will not
accept gay substitute if offered
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a
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East Waterloo lots 275 per lot Southeast part of the
City the choice location cement walks to car line Shade
trees etc
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